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BS IN MEDICAL IMAGING AND RADIATION SCIENCES - SONOGRAPHY

B.S. in Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences - Sonography

The sonography profession uses equipment that generates high-frequency sound waves to produce images of the human body. The sonographer acquires images and data for the interpreting physician to diagnose disease and pathology in patients. This profession includes abdominal sonography, neurosonography, echocardiography, obstetrical and pelvic sonography, and vascular technology.  In each of these areas, the sonographer must be knowledgeable of expected pathology, application instrumentation, and exam results.

The OUHSC sonography program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs in Abdominal Extended, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Adult Cardiac, and Vascular sonography, and requires each student to obtain competencies in all these specialty areas. Students who graduate from this program are eligible to take the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonography credentialing exams associated with each of these specialty areas 60 days prior to graduation. 


The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center College of Allied Health ensures that program expectations, learning objectives, and educational outcomes offered at the Oklahoma City and Tulsa campuses are consistent.   Program outcomes between the Oklahoma campus and Tulsa campuses are evaluated yearly by course directors and reported to the Department Chairman and the Dean of the College of Allied Health.